RE: 3.6.0-rc0 and skipped tests

[Robinson, Melvin D]

How many tests are there?  On my system, Fedora 16, I get 
Summary:
  PASS  10140
  FAIL      0

but no indication of skipping 50 or so tests.  
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:13 PM
To: Doug Stewart
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Subject: Re: 3.6.0-rc0 and skipped tests

From: Doug Stewart <address@hidden>
> I got:
> Summary:
>
>   PASS  10090
>   FAIL      0
>
> There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).
>
>
>
> But I also got 50 skipped tests  which I didn't get for 3.4.92
> all related to sparse.
>
>   ***** testif HAVE_UMFPACK ;# permuted LU
>  [L,U] = lu (bs);
>  assert (L*U, bs, 1e-10);
> ----- skipped test
>
> etc.
>
> Is this expected???
>
> Doug
1/10/12

Doug,

It's expected, but not right.  I recently added the ability to test for
multiple packages on a single %!testif line.  However, I wasn't trying to
implement a full parser and I wasn't stripping comments from the line
before processing it.  I checked in a change which does strip comments
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/68fd9f95e1f9).

Cheers,
Rik